Stype Typewriter: Chat on Skype With Walternate

Davide Gomba — August 4th, 2011

[Daniel Huhndt] hacked a typewriter to let it sending his dato over Skype: the Stype.

With the help of “some solenoids, relays, pushbuttons, some parts of a cheap keyboard, an arduino mega and a mac mini” , the typewriter can be used to send messages online. Whatever is typed into the paper gets sent, and the replies are automatically typed into the paper, archiving the conversation in the process. Whether our daily conversations are worth documenting is another matter.